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Bombing

noun

An attack by dropping bombs. Synonym: bombardment.

The use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists.

Bomb

verb

Throw bombs at or attack with bombs. Synonym: bombard.

Fail to get a passing grade. Synonyms: fail, flunk, flush it. "Did I fail the test?" Antonym: pass.

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"Bombing" Quotes from Famous Books

... flying so low that I could make out its iron cross, exactly like photographs I'd seen. Whether the men in it could see me or not I can't tell; but if they could, perhaps they mistook me for one of the statues they knew existed in the ruined chapel, and thought I wasn't worth bombing. ...

— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... enemy in guns of all calibers. Our heavy guns were able to reach Metz and to interfere seriously with German rail movements. The French Independent Air Force was placed under my command which, together with the British bombing squadrons and our air forces, gave us the largest assembly of aviation that had ever been engaged in one ...

— Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line - The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam • Clarence Young

... officers of B and D Companies were drinking together the following day in a hole on the Bluff, when the Brigade Bombing Officer burst in among us, and ...

— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond

... ever up to its nominal strength; least of all an Air Corps. The dangerous shortage is that in two-seater aeroplanes as we want our Air Service now for spotting and reconnaissances. If, after that requirement had been met, we had only a bombing force at our disposal, the Gallipoli Peninsula, being a very limited space with only one road and two or three harbours on it, could ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton

... cellar two floors underground where civilians went during air raids as bombing planes passed over on their way to Compaigne, Paris, and interior cities. This "cave" was considered absolutely safe, but in October 1918 was completed demolished by one ...

— "I was there" - with the Yanks in France. • C. LeRoy Baldridge